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Tuesday, December 22, 2009

Kuechly praise and other links

Luke Kuechly got the full feature treatment from Rivals. He modestly attributes much of his success to "not getting blocked." Having watched his games back, he's not totally off in his assessment. There were many times when he wasn't blocked. But it wasn't just blown assignments, much of it was Kuechly's speed and instincts getting to the play and making plays no one would have expected.

Jared Dudley made the cover of a fitness magazine in Arizona. For Dudley fans, it is not too late to join Arizona BC fans at the Dudley meet and greet January 8. Contact Chapter President Jim Gruber(jim_gruber@yahoo.com) for more details.

7 comments:

Well I guess Keuchly will be getting blocked Saturday after all this press. The more bad news that comes out for SC the better I feel about the D keeping us in this one. Then I get a sinking feeling in my stomach remembering the VT, Clemson and UNC games. God I hope Shinskie has been using the last 3 weeks to work on check downs and the O-line is really working together. Hopefully Finch comes back looking like he did in the first few games.

Great quote from Spaz. Would've been even funnier if he said Land Rover.

When asked his reaction when he found out he was facing high-profile USC, Spaziani said: "It was good news, bad news — like your mother-in-law went off the cliff ... in your Cadillac Escalade."

I think Keuchly avoids getting blocked because he anticipates and/or read the play very quickly and, like a terrific center fielder, just gets a really good jump on the ball. As a result he seems to always be at least a half-step ahead of the block leaving lineman and receivers blocking air while he's executing his textbook tackling technique, which is another reason his numbers are so high -- he almost never misses a tackle or has a ball carrier run through his tackle attempts.